PAWSIC aims to elevate LTC wound care, skin standards
By
Kimberly Marselas
Nov 07, 2023
A former Genesis HealthCare executive has launched a national collaborative meant to educate long-term care professionals on all aspects of wound care and skin health.
Ask the nursing expert … about preparing for respiratory illness season
By
Amy Stewart
Nov 07, 2023
Q: How can we prepare for the coming respiratory illness season?
RNs, building leaders bank major pay gains in 2023
By
Kimberly Marselas
Nov 07, 2023
Salaries for nursing home leaders continued their upward trajectory this year, with many facilities responding to staffing shortfalls by increasing pay more rapidly than in the past and sometimes tacking...
Leaders ponder: Will 1-year delay save the day on staffing mandate?
By
Kimberly Marselas
Nov 07, 2023
It almost certainly will take federal regulators more than a year just to review tens of thousands of comments they have received on a proposed nursing home staffing rule, inevitably delaying any form...
Minimum staff proposal will fail, provider groups warn CMS
By
Kimberly Marselas
Nov 06, 2023
Providers came out swinging with the comment period for the minimum staffing rule proposal coming to a close tonight.
State News – November 2023
By
Kimberly Marselas
Nov 03, 2023
Indiana has recommended several companies to provide Medicaid managed care to seniors but by early October had yet to issue $15 billion in contracts.
BREAKING: RN in insulin killing case charged in 17 other nursing home deaths
By
Kimberly Marselas
Nov 03, 2023
Heather Pressdee, 41, is accused of wrongly administering insulin to patients, often in extremely high doses, and often to patients who were not diabetic. In total, state prosecutors said Thursday, 17...
Study: About 14 percent of Americans experienced long COVID
By
Kristen Fischer
Nov 03, 2023
By the end of 2022, 1 in 7 people in the United States said they had long COVID, a new study published in PLoS ONE on Thursday showed.
Some AIT candidates go without placements as turnover, vacancies persist in SNF leadership
By
Kimberly Marselas
Nov 03, 2023
Growing the next generation of nursing home leaders is proving increasingly difficult for some skilled nursing operators.
Older adults’ brain health declined more quickly than normal during pandemic, study shows
By
Kristen Fischer
Nov 02, 2023
People ages 50 to 80 saw brain health deteriorate more quickly during the pandemic even if they didn’t have COVID-19, a new study shows.